Rolling Stone has taken notice of a hard-rocking country group from Mobile, depicting the band as a rising group that already is on track to have a big breakthrough year in 2024.

In a profile published Sunday, Rolling Stone’s Garrett K. Woodward depicts the Red Clay Strays as a band that’s lining up milestone after milestone: Moving shows from 1,000-seat clubs to 4,000-seat amphitheaters and still selling out, racking up 60 million Spotify streams for a single and booking a run of three sold-out shows this September at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium.

Woodward describes Red Clay Strays sound as “Delta blues, gritty honky-tonk, and Sun Records rockabilly, shot through with a palpable darkness — call the result ‘gothic country.’ Lead singer Brandon Coleman’s fire and brimstone vocals tie it all together, and hint at the undercurrent of faith that runs through the band.”

The feature tells a story that’s already familiar to fans in the Mobile area: Formed around 2016, the band took a while finding its voice. It got a bit of a break when film producer D. Scott Lumpkin included its “Good Godly Woman” in the 2019 film “Doctor Sleep.” Chalk up Lumpkin, who also signed the group to his Skate Mountain Records label, as one of the first to see the light.

“Scott signed us … when we had only been a band for like two months,” singer Brandon Coleman told AL.com at the time. Lumpkin said his big contribution was pushing band members to quit their day jobs and hit the road hard, paying their dues the old-fashioned way. That’s been the mission ever since for Coleman and his bandmates, Drew Nix on guitar and background vocals, Zach Rishel on lead guitar, Andrew Bishop on bass and John Hall on drums.

They took a big step forward in 2020 with the independent release of the crowdfunded album “Moment of Truth.” The band recorded the album in the Huntsville studio of Noel Webster, and came out of the experience feeling like it finally had captured something representative of its energy.

“It’s pretty close to us, man, we recorded it all live in the studio,” Coleman told AL.com in 2022. “We didn’t have anybody telling us what to do or how to record it or how to do the sound. It was just all of us, we produced it and recorded it ourselves, pretty much. We’re all pretty proud of it, for sure.” Later that year, the band got to play a showcase at CMA Fest. The single “Wondering Why” took off on TikTok and other social media platforms.

In late 2023, the band confirmed that it had been in the studio with legendary producer Dave Cobb. That’s created the sense that when the album finally drops, it’ll cap all the dues paid so far and catapult the group to another level. It almost seems like the band is on rails.

“We all feel super led,” Rishel says in the Rolling Stone piece. “This is what we’re here to do — there’s no other purpose more important in our lives than making this band the biggest and best thing it can be.”

For more on the band, visit www.redclaystrays.com. Tour dates listed on the site include only one Alabama performance, a sold-out show March 29 at Fairhope’s Halstead Amphitheater.